Can't knock you for trying, though. If it's any consolation, I reckon 99.9% of these types a vid are dull unless the riding/terrain are amazing or I know the people featured in them. If you had fun filming, that's all that really matters.

What's with all the slow-mo? Just made it very boring to watch IMO. Quality's good though, nicely edited too

The slow-mo helps with the fact that once you speed everything up the picture becomes significantly harder to watch as it's bouncing around everywhere. Also (IMO) it provides a nice contrast when you do go back up to real time. Really I need to find a better way of filming off bike.

Bike videos are damned hard to make well. I have go-proed (is that a word?) a few shorts up over the years (climbing, kayaking and biking) and biking is defo the hardest to make look good. I think it struggles in 1st person unless you are following someone good or going really fast or doing something dumb/crazy (for dumb see 5:50 ish here

Hope you had fun making it because there's a reason that it didn't come out looking like Ian Rankin shot it and it's nothing to do with gear.

We did have fun, although I must admit I don't follow the Ian Rankin reference? Are our skills not up to it, because if so then I'm fully aware that I'm not the worlds greatest mtb rider.

Thanks for the constructive criticism guys. I think it's going to be a case of less slo-mo, better and more interesting angles, better riding, in fact just generally being better all round. Oh, and we're definitely going to keep making them for ourselves...

Love the opening shot in the second one. Apart from that not overly exciting, I think some panning shots on tripod would look good - you can get a tripod mount for the go pro, but to do nice smooth panning shots you need a tripod with fluid head which can be expensive.